Can't install R 2.15 and r-recommended on Ubuntu
On 11/07/2013 02:52 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 7 November 2013 at 14:40, Kirill M?ller wrote: | When attempting to install R in version 2.15 (for testing purposes) on a | clean Ubuntu 12.04 machine from the CRAN Ubuntu repository, I can't seem | to install r-recommended: | | + sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends | r-base-dev=2.15.3-1precise0precise1 r-base-core=2.15.3-1precise0precise1 | r-recommended=2.15.3-1precise0precise1 qpdf What happens when you do no hard-code version numbers?
Everything works fine in this case. But I need R 2.15 -- as you may have guessed, this is for r-travis. Here are a few failed builds: https://travis-ci.org/krlmlr/r-travis/jobs/13630510 -- explicitly installing all packages r-recommended depends on https://travis-ci.org/krlmlr/r-travis/jobs/13630201 -- install R 2.15 and current r-recommended https://travis-ci.org/krlmlr/r-travis/jobs/13629522 -- the original case: install R 2.15 and r-recommended 2.15 If this can't be resolved easily on the client side: Perhaps this could be fixed by (a) adding older deb-s to the repo and/or (b) specifying a maximum version in r-recommended? On the other hand, r-recommended is necessary for CRAN checks, not so for "regular" checks against older R versions.
What does, say, 'apt-cache policy r-recommended' say?
It aims at installing the most recent version, I guess. I have fired up another build to check this: https://travis-ci.org/krlmlr/r-travis/jobs/13633723 -Kirill